Local farmers discovered thousands of terracotta warrior statues in Shaanxi, China, in 1974. How much do you know about these ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife ... never be known. Qin's tomb itself remains unexcavated ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years. The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is guarded by ...

Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ... skill and craftsman-ship of the country's tomb construction and has spawn many anecdotes ...

The first emperor to unify China under a single dynasty ... With less than one percent of the vast tomb complex excavated so far, it may take centuries to uncover all that remains hidden.

Though archaeologists have examined the area, they have never opened the tomb itself, fearing irreversible damage and other, potentially more dangerous consequences. Scientists have considered non ...

The first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, rests in a tomb so large that the archaeological dig could last a century; researchers discover that the oldest of the Chinchorro mummies are children.

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...